Ancient Invasion [End Times]

Day 160 After the Invasion "Boom, boom, boom...like a heartbeat."

In the cab, Lin Qian could not help raising his eyebrows in wonder when he saw Duan Duan and the doctor on the deck looking down around the fence for a long time.

He turned to Zhang Jiuzhang and Xu Ying and said, "I'll go out and see what's going on with Team Duan and the doctor."

Zhang Jiuzhang glanced at Class A and frowned slightly: "Okay."

"I'll stay here in case something happens." Xu Ying replied, "Call me if you need anything."

Lin Qian nodded.

He walked quickly to Class A, the camouflage uniform on his body was blown up by the sea breeze, he greeted Duan Yi and Cheng Sheng, and asked, "What's the matter here?"

"Look at the surrounding sea," Cheng Sheng said.

Lin Qian leaned on the fence and looked around in a daze. The sea was calm and sparkling under the light.

He was taken aback for a moment, and then frowned: "The surroundings of the boat...why are there seaweeds?"

Cheng Sheng nodded slightly: "Du Gong just discovered that the seaweed that was originally picked up has also floated over, which is very strange."

"Seaweed... Will it mutate like saxifrage?" Lin Qian asked tentatively.

Cheng Sheng looked at the sea thoughtfully: "If it's a mutation, when Duan Yi threw the harpoon earlier, there should be an attack reaction."

"They are like a mass of dead objects." Duan Yi said.

Lin Qian said "Oh" and heaved a sigh of relief, "It's not just mutated seaweed."

"Shall we salvage it and have a look?" Lin Qian suggested asking.

Cheng Sheng pondered for a while, then nodded in response: "Okay, if the situation is not right, let go immediately."

Lin Qian readily agreed, and joined hands with Duan Yi, using the tools on the boat, to slowly scoop up a ball of seaweed from the sea.

"I didn't expect it to be so heavy." Panting heavily, Lin Qian squeezed out words with a hoarse throat.

Xu Ying looked at the deck with some doubts: "They salvaged a large group of seaweed."

Zhang Jiuzhang also saw it. He raised his eyebrows and said with a sneer, "Perhaps scientists are going to do marine material survey."

Xu Ying frowned slightly and didn't speak again.

The muscles in both of Lin Qian's arms were flushed, and he and Duan Yi finally threw the large ball of seaweed onto the deck.

The strong fishy smell of the sea immediately spread, overflowing the entire deck.

"This smell is really strong." Lin Qian waved his hand, wrinkled his nose and said in a muffled voice.

"This is red algae, the most common large seaweed in the ocean. It usually lives at a depth of [-] meters." Cheng Sheng used a harpoon to pick apart the clumps of seaweed, and said, "However, due to the influence of seawater temperature Limitation, the vast majority of red algae grow fixedly, rather than floating around like this."

Lin Qian looked at Cheng Sheng blankly: "Doctor? What does this mean?"

"Such a large area of ​​red algae floating on the sea?" Cheng Sheng raised his eyebrows, and the harpoon gently picked up a large piece of seaweed. There was a little off-white substance on the surface of the algae, which was neither insoluble in water nor completely attached.

Cheng Sheng continued: "This means that some major changes have taken place in the deep sea bed."

He pointed to the gray matter on the surface of the algae and said, "Did you see these things?"

"What is this?" Lin Qian looked closer, "It seems to be moldy."

Duan Yi frowned, stroked the gray substance on the surface with his fingers, and said in a deep voice, "Like a hair eruption."

"Eruptions?" Lin Qian was taken aback, and quickly brainstormed, "...Volcano?"

Cheng Sheng nodded: "Volcanic debris."

"In fact, the number of submarine active volcanoes accounts for about one-eighth of the world's total, and their activity at island arcs and plate boundaries is even greater than that of land volcanoes." Cheng Sheng said, "After the volcano erupts, the magma is cooled by seawater. , condensed into rocks, conical mountains on the sea floor, and huge eruptions may even form small islands."

"And when the water is shallow and the water pressure is not high, the volcanic eruption will be accompanied by a spectacular explosion, and the explosion level on the water surface is no less than that of dropping a blasting torpedo."

"These seaweeds were probably affected by the explosion at that time, and even left the bottom of the implantation bed." Cheng Sheng said.

Lin Qian glanced at the seaweed ball, then at the sea surface, and asked with a dry smile, "The volcano is erupting... Will it happen now?"

"I'm not sure about that." Cheng Sheng shook his head, "However, the ocean is so big, even if we are lucky and encounter an eruption and explosion, it may not necessarily happen under our boat. The probability of this is lower than winning the Mark Six lottery."

Lin Qian did not feel at all relaxed about the probability theory given by the doctor.

"Don't worry about it." Cheng Sheng was amused, and he said to Duan Yi, "It seems that there is no problem, throw these seaweeds back, the smell is strange."

"Wait a minute." Duan Yi said, frowning, he used a harpoon to stir in the algae, "Did you hear any noise?"

"what?"

"Bang, bang, bang... very regular sound." Duan Yi said, he looked up at Cheng Sheng, "It's like a heartbeat."

Cheng Sheng was taken aback.

In the next second, Duan Yi poked something with a completely different touch.

Duan Yi's hands paused, and then he picked up the algae and turned it out.

I saw a black spiral-shaped thing attached to the algal mass, about as thick as a human's thigh and as long as an arm. At first glance, it looked like an industrial part on a ship.

"The sound came from here." Duan Yi said.

"This thing looks weird. If Duan Duan said there was a heartbeat sound, I would have thought it was a new type of grenade." Lin Qian said, he paused, and looked at Duan Yi suddenly, "Heartbeat sound!? What am I? Didn’t even hear it? Is this some kind of conch?”

Cheng Sheng interrupted Lin Qian and said, "It's not a conch, it's an egg."

"Egg?" Lin Qian's face changed slightly, "Such a big...egg? Whose eggs are so twisted?"

"The spiral thing outside is a thick layer of egg case, which makes the eggs firmly attached to the surface of the seaweed and prevents the eggs from drifting away with the current." Cheng Sheng said.

Lin Qian thought of the egg forests of Deinosaurs that he had encountered in the primeval forest, each one was as tall as a human.

"The eggs are so big, the mother must be even bigger..." Lin Qian gasped.

"This is a shark egg. This reproductive mode is usually adopted in large sharks." Cheng Sheng said, "Usually, the hatching period of shark eggs is relatively short, ranging from a few days to as long as a month."

Lin Qian swallowed: "Shark eggs... Judging from the size of the eggs, I can guess that they are large sharks. Great white shark? Tiger shark? Whale shark?"

"I'm afraid it will be bigger." Cheng Sheng looked at Lin Qian.

"Put it back, it's not appropriate to stay on the boat." Cheng Sheng said to Lin Qian and Duan Yi.

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the egg case twist.

Lin Qian opened his eyes slightly, staring at him silently.

The black egg case broke open abruptly, and a stream of water gushed out of it, and a small shark rushed out along with the water, thumping vigorously on the deck, looking very angry.

The appearance of a newborn baby shark is far less frightening than that of an adult shark, and even a little cute.

Cheng Sheng took a look and released the little shark back into the sea.

"Let Zhang Jiuzhang go at full speed." Cheng Sheng said.

Lin Qian blinked, looked at Cheng Sheng, and seemed to understand something.

"Received." He trotted back into the cab, and said to Zhang Jiuzhang, "Doctor, let's go at full speed."

"What does he think I'm doing now? Blowing the sea breeze slowly?" Zhang Jiuzhang rolled his eyes, grumpy, "The maximum speed of this damn cruise ship can only be increased to this point. What about being a speedboat?"

Lin Qian choked.

Xu Ying asked Lin Qian: "Why did you suddenly advance at full speed? What did you find?"

"I don't know, but the boat is surrounded by seaweed. We salvaged a ball and found a shark egg attached to it, which was very big." Lin Qian said, "The egg hatched right under our noses. Here it comes, like a little shark."

"What shark is it?" Xu Ying asked with a frown.

Lin Qian paused: "...Then I can't tell, it's just plain and ordinary."

"Ordinary and unremarkable?" Zhang Jiuzhang asked back.

"Common in movies?"

Xu Ying's complexion changed, and she cursed secretly: "Idiot."

"The ones that are common in movies are the ones you least want to encounter in reality." Zhang Jiuzhang snorted coldly.

When Lin Qian came to his senses, his expression changed.

"However, I heard that great white sharks are all viviparous. They ate other baby sharks directly in the mother's belly. In the end, only one survived to give birth. Since what you see are shark eggs, it is not a great white. Shark." Zhang Jiuzhang said.

Lin Qian nodded. He gestured to the size of the egg case, and asked Zhang Jiuzhang and Xu Ying, "Have you ever seen a shark egg that big?"

"I've never seen an ordinary one. What's wrong with this size? Is it very big?" Zhang Jiuzhang asked.

"...I think it should be pretty big." Lin Qian replied dully, the normal size of an egg in his impression was at most the size of a palm.

Zhang Jiuzhang gave a "tsk", frowned and said, "Go and tell Duan Yi and the others that the speed is already at the highest level and can't be raised. Let them be on guard and adapt to the situation."

Lin Qian responded.

Adaptive?It sounds a bit resigned to fate.

Hearing what Lin Qian said, Cheng Sheng nodded slightly, and said, "Don't worry too much, most female sharks will leave immediately after their cubs hatch, and there are very few adult female sharks that will always be by their cubs' side."

"Let Zhang Jiuzhang go forward at full speed, just in case." Cheng Sheng said.

He slightly lowered his eyes. Their overall understanding of sea creatures is still far inferior to that of land creatures, whether they are existing or prehistoric.

Cheng Sheng didn't think the egg case they found was the juvenile egg of any known shark, it was too big.

Cheng Sheng hoped that the female shark would not be an exception.

The seaweed clusters are still slowly gathering around the cruise ship, swimming forward with the cruise ship, as if attached to the cruise ship.

The journey was smooth and smooth, the sea breeze was not strong, and the waves were not too strong. Cheng Sheng and the others were on the deck, watching the sun slowly sinking to the west, and the moon was replaced by the night.

"Call Du Gong and the others to come up and eat something." Cheng Sheng said.

Xu Ying nodded: "I'll call them."

She ran to the deck and informed Du Nanrong to board the ship.

For some reason, Luo Xiaonan felt a little bewildered and had a low-grade fever.

Du Jingshu said to Cheng Sheng: "Xiao Nan has a bit of diarrhea. I guess he has been drinking raw water or something, and his stomach protested."

Cheng Sheng frowned and nodded slightly, "I'll find some medicine for him, and he'll feel better after taking it."

"Since the boat has been generally cleaned up, why don't we have a good night's rest on board." Zhang Jiuzhang suggested, looking at Duan Yi, "What do you think?"

Duan Yi frowned, he glanced at the pale little guy, and thought for a while to draw a range on the schematic diagram of the cruise ship.

"Just in case, the VIP area on the third floor is used as an isolation zone, and the area north of the restaurant is an area for activities and rest. Tonight, everyone will have a good rest on the boat." Duan Yi said.